Wall panelling & wainscoting
Bespoke wall panelling in Dorset
Raised-and-fielded, flat-panel and fluted panelling — matched to the room and made to read as part of the architecture.
Good panelling is not decoration. It is part of the architecture, and it should feel built-in, not stuck on.
We panel rooms the way a house was originally built: proportioned to the wall, with a real dado, frieze and cornice, and mouldings run to match anything already there.
From a single chimney breast to a whole panelled room, every stile, rail and field is set out for its wall and hand-finished in the workshop before it is fitted.
In period and listed houses we match the existing mouldings exactly (see our heritage and conservation joinery), and a door can be cut into the panelling itself as a concealed jib door. We panel rooms across Poole, Canford Cliffs, Branksome Park and the rest of Dorset, and made the panelling for Club Gascon’s 2017 refit in Smithfield.
Panelled rooms & feature walls
A whole wall panelled and colour-matched to the room — flat-panel joinery in a deep, considered green, run to the ceiling line so it reads as part of the house.
Panelled lounge · Poole
Reeded walls
A full-height reeded wall in pale timber, with the wall lights mounted on it — a warmer, more textured register, hand-finished in the workshop and scribed to the wall on site.
Reeded wall · detail
Applied-moulding panelling
Painted panelling built up from applied mouldings on a flat ground, carried across the wall and the full-height cupboards so the hall reads as one.
Panelled hall cupboards
Jib doors & concealed rooms
A door cut into the panelling itself — flush, hinged and mould-matched so an ensuite or a store room disappears into the wall.
See hidden bookcase & secret doors.
Concealed jib door
Panelled cupboards & bookcases
Full-height painted cupboards, their doors panelled with applied mouldings under a cornice, and a bookcase built in beside them — the same architectural discipline, carried into fitted joinery.
Living-room cupboards & bookcase
What this includes
Common questions
Panelling & wainscotingWhat is the difference between panelling and wainscoting?
Wainscoting is panelling to dado (chair-rail) height; full panelling runs to the cornice. We make both, proportioned to the room.
Can you match panelling to an existing period room?
Yes. We take the existing mouldings off the wall and run new ones to match, so new panelling reads as part of the original room.
Do you make concealed (jib) doors in panelling?
We do — flush, hinged doors mould-matched to the panelling, so an ensuite, a store room or a cupboard disappears into the wall.
Further reading
Where we work
Panelling & wainscoting for homes in Poole, Sandbanks, Canford Cliffs, Branksome Park and Bournemouth — and across Dorset, the New Forest & Hampshire.
Also from the workshop
By appointment
Arrange a consultation.
Tell us about your house and your project, with a few photos and rough sizes if you have them. We'll come back with a guide price, and once it works for you we'll arrange a visit — at your home, or at our workshop and showroom on Allens Lane. No obligation, and no fixed catalogue.